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Oct 19, 2014

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Velocity Software Engineer Interview

Anonymous Employee

Anonymous Employee

Application Details

I applied online – interviewed at Cerner in September 2014.

Interview Details

Phone interview with HR. After a week technical phone interview. Pretty basic questions. Everything from Glassdoor. A month later there were 2 on site interviews 1 hour each. Again most of the questions from Glassdoor.

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Velocity Software Engineer Interview

Anonymous Employee

Anonymous Employee

Application Details

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4+ weeks – interviewed at Cerner in September 2014.

Interview Details

First round was a basic HR phone interview. Basic questions off your resume and standard HR one's.( Just prepare for all questions from Glass door). Immediately scheduled next round which was technical.Second Round technical phone. It was simple and he covered all basics, also couple of codes in Web-Ex. ( questions were from previous glass door reviews ).Next day got an invite for onsite interview ( which was the final round ). Nice accommodation and a city tour of Kansas ( best part ).Onsite had 2 rounds technical 1 hour each with Senior software developers 1:1 in nature. Questions were similar to what listed in glass door nothing unexpected or difficult.

Interview Questions

During my technical telephonic round i was asked to code in Web-Ex (Shared screen) which i had never heard Cerner would do. ( the question was pretty simple)Answer Question

Velocity Software Engineer Interview

Anonymous Employee

Anonymous Employee

Application Details

I applied through a recruiter – interviewed at Cerner.

Interview Details

2 rounds Phone Interview and 2 rounds onsite interview, all questions from glassdoor.Kansas City is a small and nice city but looks not much fun.Cerner is a good company and the business model is correct.All the staff we met looks love their company so much.The interview peace is too tight and you don't have time to know the city even this is a small city.

Velocity Software Engineer Interview

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2+ months – interviewed at Cerner in June 2014.

Interview Details

I was planning to apply to Cerner in the nearby future (they actually came to my university recruiting but I didn't apply anywhere straight away) when I was contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn. Knowing that this was probably the best way to actually get over the fear of applying I replied and applied right away.The whole process would have been faster, but I had prior commitments.I had a phone interview with the recruiter 4 days after she contacted me, and then a phone interview with a software engineer a little bit more than a week after that.The first phone interview was very basic, completely behavioral. The most unexpected questions were "what do you do in your spare time to increase your programming abilities" (I'm in grad school, I spend most of my time doing research, during the day and when I'm back at home; I ended up telling her about the algorithms books I had started reviewing) and "tell me about a recent time when you learned a new programming language" (I hadn't learned a new programming language in a while, so I was not entirely prepared for this either, but I talked about a time 4 years ago heh).The phone interview with the engineer was again mostly behavioral. Any technical questions are already posted on Glassdoor.Then I got the call about Experience Cerner day, but I couldn't make it to the earliest one because of prior commitments, so I made it to the next one, which was exactly a month after my technical phone screen.Experience Cerner Day was quite nice, albeit it started very, very early. We started with a tour of Kansas City, the city of fountains, and then had our interviews.One note about attire: Cerner is jeans-casual, but everyone interviewing will, more than likely, wear a suit. So do the same, you don't want to feel under-dressed!My interviewers were pleasant and we had some nice conversations. Half behavioral, half technical. They asked the Fizz-Buzz question, and another one about designing a database. All of the questions are on Glassdoor (except the database question, just make sure you know RDBMS normalization, you should figure it out on your own, this was definitely not a standard question).I'll add the question I felt I had the biggest problem with (but which maybe was exactly what got me hired) below.They said it would take them up to 2 weeks to give out a decision, I got mine in 10 days (I had almost given up hope by then).

Interview Questions

When was there a time when ONE SINGLE project was so overwhelming that you felt there weren't enough hours in a day for it and what did you do?View Answer

Negotiation Details

I thought about negotiating but then searched online and it seems that that's the salary they give out (it's 1k less than someone posted here). I also got a relocation package.

Velocity Software Engineer Interview

Anonymous Employee

Anonymous Employee

Application Details

I applied online. The process took 3 weeks – interviewed at Cerner in June 2014.

Interview Details

Although I had a good deal of enthusiasm going into the first phone interview (the first after one or two phone screens), I can not say the same for my interviewer. Whether it was my resume or just his task of interviewing prospects that inspired his dull, uninterested handling of questions I won't know. Rushed through introductions, didn't make an attempt at conversation, and seemed rebuffed during the introduction when I asked him how he was. Each question was read off the list, with little to no acknowledgement of correct answers (certainly not for incorrect answers). Received a rejection the next day. Mercifully quick at least.

Of note, in the weeks that followed, I had Cerner recruiters picking up my resume from indeed.com and emailing me. I found out, however, that this just means they don't bother cross-checking prospects with previously interviewed employees. As I was still interested in what this company does, I expressed interest in interviewing with them again, but this was not possible.

Interview Questions

Most of the questions already listed in other comments. I also remember a question regarding the design of an OOP Chess game.Answer Question

Velocity Software Engineer Interview

Anonymous Employee

Anonymous Employee

Application Details

I applied through college or university. The process took 2+ months – interviewed at Cerner in June 2014.

Interview Details

Had my 1st HR Phone interview 2 months ago and they scheduled me for 2nd phone round a week ago. Second one was a phone-based interview that mostly focused on Technical and a bit behavioral aspects. I got to know in a couple of days that I got through my 2nd round as well and Now waiting on them to schedule my Onsite Interviews. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Interview Questions

Nothing unexpected. Everything was from glassdoor information base. It really helps you to ease and ace your interview.View Answers (2)

Velocity Software Engineer Interview

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4+ weeks – interviewed at Cerner in April 2014.

Interview Details

First Round HR - Details about your Resume(Work Exp and everything)Second Round Technical - 1. Mainly concentrate on OOPS concept. They will ask you to design any game problem most ppbly the one listed in your resume (Please Note, they just ask you to design and not write program, so be clear with what you say). It may be Chess/Chinese Checkers or any other game.2. Memory management in Java and C++ (Please be ready to explain about Garbage Collection in Brief)3. Different Types of Testing (Diff between WhiteBox, BlackBox Testing, Unit Testing)4. Be prepared for Behavioral Question eg( What if types)PS: Be calm, answer Confidently you will surely get Onsite CallOnsite Round (Two Round):Round1 :BehavioralDealing with tough Manager/Professor.Technical:1. Car and Paint Problem (Explain OOPS concept). It seems they love OOPS ,2. Will give you a recursion problem and ask you to explain it(so called Dry Run)3. What is Normalization,Denormalization4. Longest Increasing Subsequence Problem (Surprising they added DP in their Question Bank), but still easy one .

Round 2:BehavioralSame as Round 1. I think you should be confident and good in making stories to Ace Behavioral.Technical :1. Binary Search2. Print number from 1 to 75, If divided by 5 print "Foo" , If divided by 7 print "Bar", If Divided by both 5 and 7 print "FooBar"3. Follow up on Q2 to improve the program .Hint : Guys please when they ask you to improve algo, avoid modulus operator because it is more expensive). Think a bit about its Solution .Its very simple.4. All types of Joins and explain them5. Writing a Binary Tree for "CERNER"

Interview Questions

Nothing , every thing is simple. The only thing is you should be clear with your basics and Fundamentals.View Answer

Velocity Software Engineer Interview

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Application Details

I applied online. The process took 4+ weeks – interviewed at Cerner in May 2014.

Interview Details

I had phone interview and then after 2weeks onsite interview. Every single question is from Glassdoor so prepare properly. The only different question I was asked to design database schema on person and address, this was to show how normalization works and draw tables for 1nf,2nf,3nf. Rest all are from glassdoor. If given option for onsite/skype,I would say go for onsite as its fun and very nice experience I had. They place you in President hotel which is in downtown of Kansas City and onsite gives you idea about the employees,location,expectations etc. Saw lot of young developers so seems to be nice place to start your career. Ppl from NY,WA,CA wont like this place much bcs its very quite plc.

Interview Questions

Pseudocode to find error which was having Exception Handling concept and it was regarding status of person is Active/InAcrive. Ans is function wont get called as all arguments are not passed from previous function.Answer Question

Negotiation Details

No such negotiation. For this position they offer max 68k which is quite decent as per cost of living.

Overall Interview is Process Oriented,Expecting to hear back from them about my Interview status

Interview Questions

Telephonic Interview:1.) What is Unit Testing2.) What is Code Coverage3.) Explain your projects.4.) Tell me about a time you encountered a conflict with a Team Member5.)OOPS PrinicipleMany Behavioural Questions

Video Interview : 2 1 hour Google Hangout Interview

Interview 1 : How did you fix a production Issue Displayed acode and asked to find out the output for that .It was code for String Reversal? Was Should a Code and was asked to find out about the Null Pointer Exception ? Asked about Different Joins in SQL

Interview 2 : Write a code that printouts Foobar if the No is a multiple of 7 print Foo if multiple of 5 print bar if multiple of (7 and 5) print Foo Bar2.) Explain Binary Search algorithm to find 9 from numbers 1 to 193.)Explain Projects4.) Asked to Write String Reversal LogicView Answers (2)

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